RE: Pegasos port status

["Matt Sealey" <matt%genesi-usa.com@localhost>]

Genesi has added SIGNIFICANT functionality to the firmware in order to make it a product we can sell. Not just firmware functionality, but abstraction, initialization, the x86 emulator for graphics cards etc.

 

You will not be seeing the source code to it any time soon, any more than you are going to see the source code to the

Award or American Megatrends BIOS. The whole point is, you don't need the source code to have a compliant Open Firmware.

The firmware presents and abstracts the features, and you use them. If something breaks you tell us about it. We have fixed

a lot of things in the last 2 years and it was a lot of work.

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Matt Sealey <matt%genesi-usa.com@localhost>
Manager, Genesi, Developer Relations

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From: Jorge Acereda [mailto:jacereda%gmail.com@localhost]
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 3:06 PM
To: Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
Cc: Allen Briggs; Matt Sealey; DataZap; Tim Rightnour; port-powerpc%netbsd.org@localhost; netbsd-ports%netbsd.org@localhost; port-ofppc%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: Pegasos port status

On 7/13/06, Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck

<bbrv%genesi.lu@localhost> wrote:

Hi Allen. :)

Have you seen this:

http://www.power.org/members/developers/downloads/genesi_pegasosppc

The Pegasos schematics are there for download.  You have to join as a
FREE Developer Member first, but they are there and you can get them.

<...>

 

Ok, hardware specs are really useful for a native port, but for NetBSD/ofppc what we really need is a compliant Open Firmware. Now, what about my petition to release SmartFirmware sources? Could you setup a repository holding those sources so that the severe problems could be fixed? Codegen released their sources with a BSD license long ago, so what's the value in keeping those closed?

I'd be glad to do some testing and bug-hunting on that, and once the OF-compliance problems are fixed, booting the ofppc port should be a piece of cake.